Black Thought‘s Streams of Thought Vol. 4 is an album you don’t want to sleep on — according to the man himself, anyway.

During a sit-down with Redman for Rolling Stone‘s “Musicians On Musicians” series, the legendary Roots lyricist shed light on his upcoming solo project and did little to dampen excitement for it, crowning it his “opus.”

“In many ways, I feel like it’s my opus. It has the most features, the most elaborate beats, crazy samples,” he declared.

Black Thought also explained the lengthy delay behind the album, which is part of the series of solo efforts he began dropping in 2018. (The most recent one, Streams of Thought Vol. 3, arrived in 2020.)

“Part of that is the problem, trying to get all this stuff cleared,” he said of the seemingly complicated sample clearance process

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